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Saint Louis Mo
June 5th 1864
Dear Brother [William S. Fish]_
Your kind letter came duly to hand one day last week. & until today I have had no time in which to reply. As I have been making arrangements to leave the City_ I received orders today at precisely one o’clock to be in readiness to go to Little Rock Ark_ We leave here at 5 PM tomorrow evening & will probably reach our destination in 8 or 10 days from the time of our departure. I wish you to write to me immediately on receipt of this and direct your letter to me Care of Capt Thomas A Q M [Assistant Quartermaster] Little Rock Ark. We expect to be ordered to return in 5 or 6 weeks time & to be put on duty at the Arsanal in this City but as our orders Come from Washington to go the former place we have to comply with them & hope to be ordered back here immediately in that case it will take from 4 to 6 week’s to accomplish our wishes_ You ask if I

Saint Louis Mo
June 5th 1864
Dear Brother [William S. Fish]_
Your kind letter came duly to hand one day last week. & until today I have had no time in which to reply. As I have been making arrangements to leave the City_ I received orders today at precisely one o’clock to be in readiness to go to Little Rock Ark_ We leave here at 5 PM tomorrow evening & will probably reach our destination in 8 or 10 days from the time of our departure. I wish you to write to me immediately on receipt of this and direct your letter to me Care of Capt Thomas A Q M [Assistant Quartermaster] Little Rock Ark. We expect to be ordered to return in 5 or 6 weeks time & to be put on duty at the Arsanal in this City but as our orders Come from Washington to go the former place we have to comply with them & hope to be ordered back here immediately in that case it will take from 4 to 6 week’s to accomplish our wishes_ You ask if I